Download or read book Creative Sprint written by Noah Scalin and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2017-04 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Challenge yourself to a new type of exercise with Creative Sprint! You know that if you practice yoga, guitar, salsa dancing, tennis, or pretty much anything else, you're going to get better at it. In fact, if you practice every day you're going to be pretty darn good! While you might not think of your own creativity as something you can practice, it actually works the same way. In Creative Sprint you'll find an interactive workbook with 30-day challenges designed to build your creative muscles. It's loaded with prompts to get you drawing, journaling, taking photos, and making collages - doing anything creative that you choose to do! The sprints each have a theme, such as Think Small, Work with the Unexpected, and Embrace Limitations. Throughout the book you'll find features focused on fellow sprinters as well as inspirational quotes, and every sprint ends with a recap that encourages reflection. How you use the book is up to you! Complete sprint after sprint, channeling your creativity into new challenges. Or pick up the book every couple of months, whenever you feel like you need a jolt of motivation!"--

Download or read book Sprint written by Jake Knapp and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL bestseller 'A must read for entrepreneurs of all stripes' - Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup From three partners at Google Ventures, a unique five-day process for solving tough business problems, proven at more than 100 companies. What’s the most important place to focus your effort? How many meetings and discussions does it take before you can be sure you have the right solution? What will your idea look like in real life? How do you start? Now there’s a surefire way to answer these important questions: the sprint. Designer Jake Knapp created the five-day process at Google, where sprints were used on everything from Google Search to Google X. He joined Braden Kowitz and John Zeratsky at Google Ventures, and together they have completed more than one hundred sprints with companies in mobile, e-commerce, healthcare, finance, and more. A practical guide to answering critical business questions, Sprint is a book for teams of any size, from small startups to Fortune 100s, from teachers to nonprofits. It’s for anyone with a big opportunity, problem, or idea who needs to get answers today.

Download or read book New Art and Science Affinities written by Andrea Grover and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "New Art/Science Affinities" was written and designed in one week by four authors (Andrea Grover, Régine Debatty, Claire Evans, and Pablo Garcia) and two designers (Thumb), using a rapid collaborative authoring process known as a "book sprint." The topic of "New Art/Science Affinities" is contemporary artists working at the intersection of art, science, and technology, with explorations into maker culture, hacking, artist research, distributed creativity, and technological and speculative design. Chapters include: Program Art or Be Programmed, Subvert!, Citizen Science, Artists in White Coats and Latex Gloves, The Maker Moment, and The Overview Effect. 60 international artists and art collaboratives are featured, including Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Atelier Van Lieshout, Brandon Ballengée, Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Openframeworks, C.E.B. Reas, Philip Ross, Tomás Saraceno, SymbioticA, Jer Thorp and Marius Watz. ISBN# 0977205347. Details: www.cmu.edu/millergallery/nasabook

Download or read book The Pop up Pitch written by Dan Roam and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast and practical visual storytelling method that puts a powerful new toolkit into the hands of leaders, innovators, salespeople, teachers and anyone else who needs to quickly make an impact on increasingly distracted audiences. The Pop-Up Pitch is a radical new approach to help you create the perfect presentation, combining three key elements of persuasive storytelling-simple pictures, clear words, and powerful emotions-that together motivate audiences to pay attention, learn something new, and make effective decisions. The Pop-Up Pitch weaves together the latest insights on visual cognition, behavioral economics, and classic story structures in an easy-to-learn and inspiring storytelling algorithm. In this new era of remote, work and online presenting, it delivers powerful and persuasive outcomes for time-limited professionals dealing with complex ideas, attention-deficit audiences, and the evolving challenges of modern meetings.

Download or read book Unstuck written by Noah Scalin and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Can't get the creative juices flowing? Unstuck features 52 simple, creativity-generating projects that can fit into any lifestyle. Arranged in order of time commitment--from 30 seconds to several hours--the 52 projects can be done randomly or one per week for an entire year of creativity building. Also included are 12 artist profiles that illuminate what other successful creative people do to stay inspired and productive, along with blank journaling pages to sketch, scribble, and jot down your experiences and ideas. Roll the dice (made from the "custom inspiration dice" template in the book) and see where your creative energy takes you! www.noahscalin.com www.skulladay.blogspot.com www.makesomething365.blogspot.com"--

Download or read book Design Sprint written by Richard Banfield and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation In the world of digital products, the future is difficult to predict and success requires reducing the risk of failure. This book codifies and captures a common language and process for design sprints, making them accessible to anyone, and enabling businesses and teams to build products that are successful.

Download or read book Advertising Creative written by Tom Altstiel and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2019-01-18 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advertising Creative, Fifth Edition continues to weave discussions about digital messaging through every chapter. Yet, the underlying theme is still about one thing that never changes—the need for fresh concepts and big ideas in pursuit of the One Thing. This edition introduces a new co-author, Marcel Jennings, who brings a fresh perspective from his background as a copywriter and creative director, as well as teaching at Virginia Commonwealth University. As always, the authors draw upon their experiences as working advertising professionals and teachers to get right to the point, stressing key principles and practical information that students and working professionals can use to communicate more effectively to build memorable brands. They also address some of the key issues impacting our industry today, such as gender equality, diversity in the workplace, and business ethics.

Download or read book The Agile Creativity Be more productive innovative and creative written by Marlon Wesley Machado Cunico and published by Concep3d. This book was released on 2021-05-22 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Books presents and teachs how to implement the most powerful creativity, productivity and innovative tools for you to implement in your daily basis. In addition, methods of product and services development were also presented while you learn how to increase focus and productivity.

Download or read book Creative Sprint written by Friedrich Holl and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book FCC Record written by United States. Federal Communications Commission and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Creative Curve written by Allen Gannett and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great idea isn't a sudden light-bulb moment. It's taking something familiar and making it feel new. We’ve been told a lie about the nature of creativity. We're told stories about creative geniuses – the young Mozart who effortlessly overshadows the hardworking Salieri; Paul McCartney coming up with the tune for Yesterday in a dream one morning; JK Rowling finding inspiration for Harry Potter sitting on a train to London. What we aren’t told is the actual story behind such hits. In fact there is a science and method for mainstream success, whether writing a popular novel, starting a company or creating an effective marketing campaign, and in this book Allen Gannett – data wizard and successful entrepreneur – reveals the four laws of creativity that are proven to work. New ideas are surprising at first, and slowly become familiar as we get used to them. Allan Gannett reveals there’s a sweet spot between what feels familiar and safe to us, and what is innovative and new: the point of optimal tension between safety and surprise, similarity and difference. The people we think of as creative geniuses are people who understand this sweet spot instinctively; they know what people find familiar and reassuring, and they find ways to reinvent it fresh. Packed with stories and insights ranging from the team behind Dear Evan Hansen to the founder of Reddit, from the Chief Content Officer of Netflix to Michelin starred chefs, The Creative Curve will help you spend less time on ideas destined to fail and more time on ideas that really break out. This book is for everyone, whether you’re a business leader, a creative artist or a budding entrepreneur – and will teach you the secret to conceiving great ideas that can achieve major success.

Download or read book The Win Without Pitching Manifesto written by Blair Enns and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Speed Strength written by Joel Smith and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In training speed, the most elusive athletic quality, what really works, and what doesn't? What are the components of sprinting itself that elites do, where amateurs falter? And how can we arrange all of this in a training medium that facilitates high performance? Speed Strength is the product of hundreds of athletes trained, thousands of hours of study, dozens of expert mentors, and an open mind. If you are interested in the answer to these questions, then Speed Strength is the book that holds the answers you are looking for, and much more.Joel Smith is the host of the Just Fly Performance Podcast and a track and strength coach of 13 years. As a track coach to national champions and Olympic champions as a strength coach, Joel has seen the elements of speed inside and out. Featuring the insight of over 25 field leaders, Speed Strength touches on the most important trainable elements of sprinting in a holistic and thorough manner.

Download or read book The Other Side of Innovation written by Vijay Govindarajan and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their first book, Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators, the authors provided a better model for executing disruptive innovation. They laid out a three-part plan for launching high-risk/high-reward innovation efforts: (1) borrow assets from the existing firms, (2) unlearn and unload certain processes and systems that do not serve the new entity, and (3) learn and build all new capabilities and skills. In their study of the Ten Rules in action, Govindarajan and Trimble observed many other kinds of innovation that were less risky but still critical to the company's ongoing success. In case after case, senior executives expected leaders of innovation initiatives to grapple with forces of resistence, namely incentives to keep doing what the company has always done--rather than develop new competence and knowledge. But where to begin? In this book, the authors argue that the most successful everyday innovators break down the process into six manageable steps: 1. Divide the labor 2. Assemble the dedicated team 3. Manage the partnership 4. Formalize the experiment 5. Break down the hypothesis 6. Seek the truth. The Other Side of Innovation codifies this staged approach in a variety of contexts. It delivers a proven step-by-step guide to executing (launching, managing, and measuring) more modest but necessary innovations within large firms without disrupting their bread-and-butter business.

Download or read book Die Empty written by Todd Henry and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A must-read for anyone interested in moving from inspiration to action.” —Cal Newport, author of So Good They Can’t Ignore You Most of us fill our days with frantic activity, bouncing from task to task, scrambling to make deadlines and chase the next promotion. But by the end of each day we’re often left wondering if any of it really mattered. We feel the ticking of the clock, but we’re unsure of the path forward. Die Empty is a tool for people who aren’t willing to put off their most important work for another day. Todd Henry explains the forces that lead to stagnation and introduces practices that will keep you on a true and steady course. The key is embracing the idea that time is finite, so you should focus on the unique contribution to the world that only you can make. Henry shows how to sustain your enthusiasm, push through mental barriers, and unleash your best work each day.

Download or read book The Pop up Pitch written by Dan Roam and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast and practical visual storytelling method that puts a powerful new toolkit into the hands of leaders, innovators, salespeople, teachers and anyone else who needs to quickly make an impact on increasingly distracted audiences. The Pop-Up Pitch is a radical new approach to help you create the perfect presentation, combining three key elements of persuasive storytelling-simple pictures, clear words, and powerful emotions-that together motivate audiences to pay attention, learn something new, and make effective decisions. The Pop-Up Pitch weaves together the latest insights on visual cognition, behavioral economics, and classic story structures in an easy-to-learn and inspiring storytelling algorithm. In this new era of remote, work and online presenting, it delivers powerful and persuasive outcomes for time-limited professionals dealing with complex ideas, attention-deficit audiences, and the evolving challenges of modern meetings.

Download or read book Creative Solutions for Ordinary Problems written by Gizem Sahan and published by C42C Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ART OF EVERYDAY GENIUS: 42 Creative Insights to Transform Your Daily Life from Ordinary to Extraordinary From Gizem Şahan, the visionary engineer turned coach and expert in creative problem-solving. What if you could unlock your hidden potential every single day? In this inspiring book, Gizem Şahan guides you how to see the extraordinary in the ordinary and turn everyday problems into opportunities for growth and joy. "Creative Solutions for Ordinary Problems" reveals not just one, two, or even ten, but precisely 42 brilliant strategies to turn mundane challenges into extraordinary breakthroughs. Why 42? In a clever nod to Douglas Adams, Gizem Şahan playfully addresses his iconic answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything. Why You'll Love This Book: ★ Creative & Scientific Insights: Unlock creative solutions to everyday problems, from digital overload to relationship complexities. ★ Joy in the Ordinary: Discover delight in the most unexpected places, turning the mundane into magical moments. ★ Empowering Exercises: Practical activities designed to ignite your creativity and enhance problem-solving skills. ★ Personal Growth: Transform daily challenges into powerful lessons for self-improvement and growth. If you are: ★ Struggling with routine and feeling uninspired... ★ Frustrated with traditional solutions that fall short... ★ Successful yet creatively stuck... ★ Eager to infuse joy into your daily life and see challenges as stepping stones… ...then this book is your perfect companion. This isn't just another self-help book. It is a mentor, a compass, and an exhilarating companion for anyone committed to living a life less ordinary. Gizem challenges you to break from the norm, to dare to envision a life where every obstacle is an opportunity for creativity and transformation. Using her unique blend of insightful wisdom, science-backed approach, and practical exercises, Gizem will guide you how to make creativity a habit. This will boost your confidence, transform your mindset, and help you achieve your dreams. Who Should Read This Book: ★ Lifelong Learners: For those eager to explore and grow continuously. ★ Creativity Enthusiasts: Ideal for anyone who believes in the power of creative thinking. ★ Personal Growth Seekers: Perfect for those on a quest for self-discovery and improvement. ★ Anyone Stuck in a Rut: Find fresh perspectives and innovative solutions to life's challenges. Chapters Include: ★ The Art of Starting: Why You’re Not Lazy, You’re Just Programmed That Way ★ The Power of Routine & Habit: Establish a Transformational Daily Routine ★ Outwitting the Impostor: A Clever Guide to Claiming Your Worth ★ Finding ‘The One’ in the Modern Age: Navigating Love and Relationships in Today’s World ★ Perfectly Imperfect: Breaking the Chains of Perfectionism ★ The Art of Saying No: Setting Personal Boundaries ★ Transitioning Careers: Navigating the Challenges of Changing Career Paths ★ Unlock Your Gut Genius: Mastering the Art of Intuitive Intelligence ★ Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Making the Big Decision About Your Job “Imagine if life came with a blueprint. Well, it doesn’t. So, I decided to draft one. Spoiler: It’s unlike anything you’d expect. It’s time to discover the genius within you.” Love, Gizem Şahan Join this journey and discover the magic hidden in your daily life. Order your copy today and start turning the mundane into the magical. The adventure begins now!